Observations 2010
Posted in: History, Medieval, Movies, Observations, Technology | Posted by: rcornish | Comments: 0 | Date: 12 January, 2010
Starting out the new year right. My goal off the top of the bat is to post daily for the month of January. That being said, my biggest first observation of the year is just how much of a cluster the holiday season between and around Christmas and New Years plays on blog readership. I went from pushing close to two hundred daily readers in the first half of December to barely getting twenty some days in between the holidays. Guess that says what most of you are doing at work, eh? Just kidding. In all seriousness I did not post as much during the that time either, but I am back on a roll now and so without further ado, some of the first of my observations for 2010!
I am not sure when this will actually get published, as I am just burning up the blogging today apparently. Long story short, but I have been going through some of my last boxes of stuff that I was thinking needed to be sold on eBay or otherwise donated. If you are interested most of it has been old electronics, a few things purchased for others that for whatever reason stayed with me, the occasional model train item that has managed to slip the through cracks, some collectible cards, and a few miniatures – you can can click 
A few weeks ago I drove up to the Northern Kentucky area and met a friend. From there we headed a bit further north into the big metropolitan area of Cincinnati with the intent of spending the afternoon viewing the various galleries at the 
I have had this pain in my heels for some time that tends to get worse with extended activities and extremely agitated in the mornings following days of huge activity. Plantar fasciitis is a mouth full to be sure, but that appears to be the cause of my grief. For those that know me you know it had to be bad for me to see a doctor about something like, but it does appear that in this case it was maybe a good call.
Yes, I said medieval bling. Yes, I am sure that is exactly what I meant. No, the medieval world was not some gray drab world that lacked color. It does not take a super amount of intelligence to figure this all out if you give it just a little bit of of thought. After all, when was it that the process of making those elaborate and oh so beautiful designs out of stained glass came to be?
A thought I have had the last few days and that in a lot of ways ties back to last week while I was at Pennsic is about hats. I found this particularly true last Friday and again this eve, both times when I put on a hat while doing something so I could leave off the sun glasses. A little background is in order first I suppose – for most of my adult life I have not been one to wear sunglasses so much. On the occasion when I have done so I usually go for the cheap ones as it would not do for me to sit on, crunch, or otherwise just loose a more expensive pair.
Last week I was in the middle of approximately eleven thousand people, mostly encamped in a semi medieval fashion and having a good battle of several thousand people every day. Today I am back to reality for my third day and reality really set in with a vengance. Now before I go to far with that I would like to step back a bit to last week. It was truly awesome and I plan to post at least once for each day going back to last week. Some may recall I thought of maybe posting while I was there, but honestly, aside from checking those work systems that I had too I stayed away from the computer during my medieval escape.
I have been asked a couple of times in the last week or two how come I had stopped blogging. Honestly, I did not realize I had. Matter of fact, I only thought it had been a couple of weeks since my last blog entry here in the back of my mind all along. Imagine my surprise when I got on here and realized that today actually marks a full thirty days since my last blog entry. I realize the truth of the song that just played, “Some people would say there is a woman to blame, but I realize it is my own damn fault.”
So some of you probably wonder why for my escape I prefer the idea of, as someone recently put it, “dressing up and pretending be a guy swinging a sword around.” If you take a look at my daily dose of technological woes and worries it is no wonder I would prefer for my relaxation time to move back 600 to 700 years away from computer and find a time when technology was in general much simpler. After all the technology level of armor or weapon, while advanced for the time, generally either worked for you and you did well or it did not and you died. No gray areas or dumb things you have to do to get them to work. Yeah, for those wondering, I am about to gripe a bit about some technology issues… 
